Posted on 06/07/2015 10:54:36 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Teachers and students scribbled the lessons — multiplication tables, pilgrim history, how to be clean — nearly 100 years ago. And they haven’t been touched since.
This week, contractors removing old chalkboards at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City made a startling discovery: Underneath them rested another set of chalkboards, untouched since 1917.
“The penmanship blows me away, because you don’t see a lot of that anymore,” Emerson High School Principal Sherry Kishore told the Oklahoman. “Some of the handwriting in some of these rooms is beautiful.”
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I guess Thunderbolt and Lightfoot forgot their stash at this school.
WOW!!
Well, this proves there was no education for kids back in 1917. There’s no illustration of how to put on condoms nor illicit sex. No common core instruction.
Yep, I learned to write cursive via a 1920s-vintage penmanship schoolbook. I recall being really keen on getting a head-start and writing in script before it was taught in class the following schoolyear. Of course, it taught the old style of writing “r” in script, along with the not-crossing the “t” when it ended a word. Which I had to revert to the more modern style at school.
I don’t know what became of that book. It was a small softback book, and I guess it just got so worn that my mother threw it out. It almost assuredly belonged to my grandmother. As a grade-school kid learning to read, I used to read many of her 1910s-era children’s books, along with my father’s from the 1930s/40s.
Maybe the kids were insane.
http://calvin-and-hobbes-comic-strips.blogspot.com/2011/11/calvin-asks-dad-about-old-black-and.html
I think its funny they call them chalkboards now. Back in the day, they were called blackboards. Did they change the name from blackboard because blackboard was racist???
And, “your and you’re”......and “yore”.
Maybe the kid doing it was insane.
http://calvin-and-hobbes-comic-strips.blogspot.com/2011/11/calvin-asks-dad-about-old-black-and.html
This story also reminds me of something I encountered in a tiny, tiny Louisiana town a couple of decades back. There were two old, small buildings, built side-by-side, and were pretty much the only two non-residential buildings in that tiny-spot-in-the-road town. One had been a grocery store way back, and the other was the ‘city hall.’
The brick ‘city hall’ was torn down, and it revealed on the side of the long-closed grocery building was a great, painted “Dr. Pepper” advertisement, which dated probably to the late-1930s (based on my knowledge of its look and style) and had apparently been hidden ever since the other building was built up against its wall. Beautifully preserved. This town was nearly 200 miles from where I lived, but when I got home, I wrote to the town, imploring them to try to preserve the advertisement. Never got any response. Alas, next time I drove by, six months later, it had totally been painted over.
Back in the day, they were called blackboards.
They use White boards now.
It’s a no win box of PC stupidity.
But, no Kodachrome or Ektachrome.
To compare the traditional teach methods of the 1910’s to Common Core you would have to divide the successes of the 1910’s by the successes of Common Core.
So considering that Common Core is totally ineffective or put it mathematically zero percent effective and the teaching methods of the 1910’gave us the birth of quantum mechanics and the electrical grid so you would put the value of those methods at a sizably large number.
Therefore having the effectiveness of 1910’s methods valued at a large number divided by Common Core methods valued at zero we must say that effectiveness of Common Core methods are “undefined”.
LOL!
The confusion about lose and loose just came out of nowhere about ten years ago. Before that no one confused the two. Now the problem is everywhere and it really annoys me.
I’ll bet that kid grew up to be a Marine.
More like 50 shades of gray.
As I grew up, I attended school in Dallas, TX, Kansas City, KS and northern NJ. I always referred to them as blackboards.
I think the change to chalkboard may have happened when black lost favor to green. Supposedly easier to read. So the name changed to the generic chalkboard.
They changed the name because they were green in the 60s and 70s, white in the 2000s. They stopped being black long before calling something black was a bad thing.
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